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My toilet is sinking into hell
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You're head-first in now, pull all the rotted flooring, down to the joists if necessary. I got lucky -- I had a layer that was solid before that and could just cover it with new plywood and put new vinyl over top. But the only real difference in going down to the joists is being careful to not fall in once the floor is gone!
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Replace it with (what should be) 2 layers of OSB tongue and groove. Probably 23/32. This is the shit I used on mine:
m.lowes.com/pd/AdvanTech-Flooring-23-32-...6EAQYASABEgLvV_D_BwE
Make sure to screw it down, not nail it down. Extra points if you toss some Liquid Nails along the contact surfaces to avoid squeaks 5-10 years from now.
Depending on what you want to finish it with, you can use self-leveler if needed (Webpatch) to make the floor flat if it’s not, and then you can put any flooring you want down. If you use tile, you’ll be raising the floor height so make sure to measure gaps beneath doors and plan for that and thresholds. I’m a huge huge huge fan of Schlüter product, and so if I was doing it, I’d use Ditra or Ditra-Heat (for warm floors) and then tile over the top with large format tile and unmodified mortar ( not polymer!!! ). It’s slighly more expensive than good linoleum but no person ever said “I don’t want tile in my home”, so consider the payback upon sale.
Good luck!
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I also learned today that my circular saw has a depth gauge. I am fifty one years old.
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If you don’t have a path from the shower to the toilet...it was likely not the shower.
Spray the black stuff and surrounding areas with Tilex or 4:1 diluted bleach. The spores will travel in your ducting. Do this ASAP.
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cranberries wrote: The black spots correlate with nail heads, so I'm guessing they're corrosion and not black mold.
We see that a lot in our older homes. the nail head thing.
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I will probably have to rip out the sink unit to get to the flooring, in order to remove all of it.
The water damage actually seems the worst around the toilet drain. The fiberboard is sawdust, and can be knocked away to reveal the thin plywood substrate.
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I then ran the shower for 10 minutes and there was no leakage onto what remains of the floor.
So, given that the shower faucet thingies were replaced in the last year, I am going to assume that the toilet was leaking at the seal.
My wife has informed me that we are ripping the tiles off the wall and also tearing out the vanity, so this is going to be a longer project.
Working on this and doing some additional pre-Christmas anxiety cleaning pretty much killed today's Wiz War game.
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cranberries wrote: My wife has informed me that we are ripping the tiles off the wall and also tearing out the vanity, so this is going to be a longer project..
Lol. Many years ago our floor went soft around the toilet. What started our as a plan to just replace the bad wood and reseat the toilet for a few hundred dollars and a weekend's worth of work, turned into gutting the bathroom down to the studs and the joists, a few thousand dollars, and two months of work, plus having to pull a permit and get a variance.
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